I have the new Playboy in my hands. The new Playboy - no nudity - and I like it.

First of all I like the way it feels in my hands. It is much wider and the material of the cover is different - less slick - more tactile.

Tactile is not the right word but I like it. The material is more like a high quality cardboard - that is the best that I can do.

Seems like there are a lot more articles and features in the magazine, which is good - I actually read it, you know.

Playboy to me was always about the lifestyle, not the flesh.

High end everything, things that I coveted, from cars to suits to shoes to jewelry to vacation spots to colognes to cigars to actors to novelists to poets to musicians.

A lifestyle. A lifestyle I could aspire to in my dreams.

I loved the liberal attitude and lifestyle espoused by the magazine and those who contribute to it and are featured and interviewed in it.

You cannot say there is no nudity in the new version. There is nudity but the women are covered up - either in poses or camera angles - so there is no pubic hair, no breasts, no vaginas.

Christ, the fold out features a woman wearing a shirt and panties.

I was never interested in any other "girlie" magazine; Hustler, Penthouse etc. They were graphic, they were in your face with female nudity; that is not what it is all about.

Playboy was - and is - all about class; all about lifestyle, all about beauty.

The magazine did this in part as a response to the fact that nudity is readily available anywhere and everywhere today; you can dial up some lusty porn on your "smart" phone in the bathroom at work.

There is nothing novel about a naked female body anymore.

Truthfully, they are also responding to slumping sales.

I think it is a pretty bold move for Playboy to cover up, considering the legacy of the magazine, in an attempt to attract new devotees.

I an all for it. I haven't even read a word yet and I love it.

Playboy was ahead of the curve when Hef introduced a magazine that was all about the good life, the better life, the successful life, that also happened to celebrate and worship the female body tastefully.

Playboy is now ahead of the curve in covering up the female body as a new way to celebrate and worship it.

If you can't afford to live life in the classy way you would prefer, you can at least immerse yourself in it and dream.